We've been working with a demo copy of Sharepoint 07 this past year. Added something called Sharepoint Learning Kit which provides an educational environment to it. The setup is a bit buggy, teachers really haven't taken to it. Students use it as a place to store documents. With the offering of Sharepoint as a part of l...@edu, don't think we will roll out our in-house sharepoint next year. Don't know what features MS will add to Sharepoint Live, but it should be able to cover the basic needs that we have used this past year.
Past years we have used a hosted product called ClassServer. Since MS has dropped the support for it, ClassServer struggled with newer software and innovations. So we went looking for something else. With our 1:1,(I think we're in our 5th year) I see it to be important to provide some sort of dashboard that would link teachers to students. It seems the more the teachers integrates some of the features of Sharepoint into the classroom, the more computers are used. Just an observation. I'm sure that could be said about Moodle, blackboard or any other vehicle that encourages the dialogue between teachers and students. Have a great weekend... Murray Gafkjen Clay Central Everly
